NEWP - 1878 8TF - GTG and VAM? (Grade Revealed)
TommyType
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From late September through January, I was pretty much "purchase dormant". A series of work travel, and real life put collecting on the back burner.
Starting this month, I'm on a binge. Long Beach, another show, and online purchases. I need to take a breather!
Anyway, below is the newest. I've wanted a nice 8TF for awhile, as part of a "Morgan Type Set" (as I define it), and looked at a couple at Long Beach. Nothing met my price/quality criteria. Then this one just popped up on a dealer emailed list. I didn't hesitate. Thankfully (for you), it has a TrueView, and you don't have to suffer through my photography.
Care to guess the grade? Any VAM fans want to flex their 8TF VAMing abilities? (I think the pic is good enough, if you expand it).
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64 on the grade. I do not do VAM's.
Ms65 VAM15
64 maybe even a 64+. Beautiful coin, congrats!
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
BOOMIN!™
Wooooha! Did someone just say it's officially "TACO™" Tuesday????
Retiring at 55, what day is today?
64 and even though I am extremely intimitaded by all 1878 Vams....I will guess(probably wrongly) Vam 19. Great eye appeal!
That didn't generate much interest! Nobody likes Morgans anymore?
I think the TrueView was a little too kind to the coin....but I wouldn't blink seeing it in a 64 holder. Much more attractive than the 63's I've seen with hash marks all over the cheek! The field chatter probably makes 65 a no-go. Anyway, here's the grade.
As for the VAM, I agreed with @Hallco that it's a VAM 19. (No "authoritative" assessment on the slab....so we'll have to just agree....or disagree).
Gives me a chance to ask a question, though. I picked up the books below a LONG time ago, and they are fantastic for attributing 8TF and 7/8TF varieties. Anyone else have these? Are they still in print??
Nice coin, maybe too much field activity for a 64? Lots and lots of vams in the first year of issue.
Probably. I'm not in a position to say PCGS is WRONG....Just that it's a cleaner coin in some ways than a lot of 63's I've come across.
This is the kind of 8TF MS-63 that I've been trying to avoid. I really dislike the obvious marks on the cheek. Looks like a 62 to me! But, if they are both 63, then it just goes to show that it pays to search around....
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I do! There are lots of others here on the forum that do, but it seems as though recent Morgan/Vam threads aren't getting too many replies. I think many have gone to other places(SSDC, NSDR, Vamworld,etc...)